Cirrus@Austlit

A convict being transported to Botany Bay saves the daughter of an officer from being drowned during the voyage - changing her mother's opinion of him. Workmanlike and brief. (PB)

A colonial teacher argues for corporal punishment for students on the basis of the incorrigible Robkins whose character was saved by a flogging at a wooden triangle. (PB)

Set on the Ovens River, Victoria in 1862 at Beechworth, near another Victorian country town in 1867, and at Hobart town, Tasmania, in February 1868. A dream of danger in three scenes is fulfilled over six years in a government clerk's life. Easy tone of masculine camaraderie - a blokey story of the bush and presentiment. (PB)

Patience as a virtue and as inertia. (PB)

Example rather than nature determines our life. (PB)

Anecdote of a jeweller of Ascalon who honoured his father more than a sale of diamonds. Exemplary folk tale. (PB)

Contains an old Melbourne boatman's account of suicides in the Yarra near Prince's Bridge. (PB)

The author's and Sir Walter Scott's opinions on the historical accuracy of Shakespeare's portrait of the Scottish king. (PB)

A tragedy of Victori'as Western District where a cattle station owner's daughter disappears. Melbourne detective Dan Scully suspects the owner's nephew who desperately wished to marry her ... (PB)

Fraud in a gold mining co-operative by men in Chinese disguise is uncovered. Unwieldy and unclear. (PB)

An inmate of a colonial asylum for aged and worn-out men who speaks only in church or prayer. (PB)

The effect on other's created by sympathy. (PB)

Satirical account of ball toilettes at a Wyoming Territory ball - 'army-blanket overskirt' etc. (PB)

Author's reflections on phrenology and reminiscences of visits to prisons and examination of inmates' skulls - including Frank Gardiner the bushranger. Includes suggestions for improving education of children and society. There are other articles by Hume but they do not contain the autobiographical content of this one. (PB)